Saturday 14th February
Last Saturday we travelled up to London for the day to film the London sequences. We found that shooting on location, especially a busy city like London can have have many rewards but also multiple drawbacks. A great aspect about shooting in London is that the opening will look realistic, due to the filming locations being in a natural circumstance. Moreover, filming in London was a major advantage as it allowed us to ask members of public to take part in our opening. This was very useful for us as we needed over 20+ people in our opening and by using unknown characters, the sequence will then look much more realistic. To ensure legitimacy to the public, we showed them a written consent from our teacher before they took part in our video.
However, there were some drawbacks that were obviously going to be expected. For example, one major issue we faced was trying to produce high quality footage while working around with the public. Due to this being a non-budget film and for educational purposes we had no control over the public. For example, one of the clips shows a courier getting onto the tube which then cuts to a different courier getting off the same tube at the next station. As you could imagine this could be a nightmare trying to get to the next station, and hoping for a different courier leaving the tube to be in the exact same position with public not getting in front of the camera and blocking the view. Other drawbacks involved weather, time and lighting.
Below shows a behind the scenes video from Saturday.
Last Saturday we travelled up to London for the day to film the London sequences. We found that shooting on location, especially a busy city like London can have have many rewards but also multiple drawbacks. A great aspect about shooting in London is that the opening will look realistic, due to the filming locations being in a natural circumstance. Moreover, filming in London was a major advantage as it allowed us to ask members of public to take part in our opening. This was very useful for us as we needed over 20+ people in our opening and by using unknown characters, the sequence will then look much more realistic. To ensure legitimacy to the public, we showed them a written consent from our teacher before they took part in our video.
However, there were some drawbacks that were obviously going to be expected. For example, one major issue we faced was trying to produce high quality footage while working around with the public. Due to this being a non-budget film and for educational purposes we had no control over the public. For example, one of the clips shows a courier getting onto the tube which then cuts to a different courier getting off the same tube at the next station. As you could imagine this could be a nightmare trying to get to the next station, and hoping for a different courier leaving the tube to be in the exact same position with public not getting in front of the camera and blocking the view. Other drawbacks involved weather, time and lighting.
Below shows a behind the scenes video from Saturday.
Monday 16th February
This extract of the sequence is arguably the most important aspect of the opening sequence to our film, because it is the first thing the audience sees which means that we want them to be immersed into the film as soon as possible. Below shows some photos and a video of behind the scenes from Monday. Many thanks to Macy's Butchers for their generosity in letting us film there. It enabled us to create really nice shots of the butcher and the meat itself, to make it portray like a body being chopped up and then thrown into the red holdall. After the butcher scene, we got shots of a customer and first courier of the red holdall (Louise's grandfather) walking out of the butchers and heading to the train station. From the train station, this is where he would pass the holdall onto the second courier.
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